Category Archives: Postmodernism

The New Yorker: Exploring the Freedom of Being Multiple

The subject of the profile is (based on the picture) a blacke female. It’s The New Yorker, so the writer of the piece is naturally ***ish. (“A Startling Début Novel Explores the Freedom of Being Multiple” by Katy Waldman). The … Continue reading

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They Need ‘They’

The writer of a piece in Aeon titled “We need the singular ‘they’ – and it won’t seem wrong for long” is: Jewish? Check. Feminist? Check. Lives in NYC? Check. Like the white and Jewish progressives who experienced tearful catharsis … Continue reading

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Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability

At this point in time, PoMo academia is beyond parody. Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability is a book edited by Pamela Block, Nick Pollard, Devwa Kasnitz, and Akemi Nishida. This book explores the concept of … Continue reading

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CFP: Interdisciplinary Resistance to Nationalist Borders

A CFP for radical pomo resistance! #NeverTrump! #MeToo! #OtherRandomHashtags! deadline for submissions: March 1, 2018 full name / name of organization: Contention: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest contact email: jbutcher@ccga.edu Contention Special Edition Proposal Editors: Jeffrey Butcher and Michael Noschka … Continue reading

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TNR: “University History Departments Have a Race Problem”

In The New Republic, Josephine Livingstone writes that “University History Departments Have a Race Problem”. The byline reads: “The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?” This October, Professor Matthew Gabriele … Continue reading

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NYT: 8/29/17

The NYT continues to platform crazier and crazier SJW mantras, in the forms of normalizing censorship and seeing neo-Nazis behind every tree. Today we have “White ‘Power’ and the Fear of Replacement” by Abigail Levin and Lisa Guenther: Lisa Guenther … Continue reading

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Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country”, 20 Years Later

Conor Friedersdorf has a piece on the late, pomo, leftist philosopher Richard Rorty ‘anticipated’ the rise of Trump. It’s a variation of the emergent theme that the Left, in deifying the concerns of identity politics against all else, are ignoring … Continue reading

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Professor Snowflake & His Hero Lyotard, Rhymes With

The normalization of free speech limits marches onward. In the NYT is an opinion piece by Ulrich Baer titled “What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech”: During the 1980s and ’90s, a shift occurred in American culture; personal experience and … Continue reading

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This Sense of Exclusion

From an article in The New Humanist on the Derrida-Searle debates, back in the heady days when Postmodernism seemed unstoppable: Jacques Derrida, the third child of five, was born in Algeria, then still a French colony, to Sephardic Jewish parents. … Continue reading

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Sokal Affair: 20th Anniversary

It’s been 20 years since the infamous Sokal Affair, wherein Alan Sokal, an NYU physics professor, wrote a piece titled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” that was published in the pomo socialist journal Social Text … Continue reading

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